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C vs C++ Pike vs Stroustrup But I'll be gracious enough to give Linus the final word : I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer an
by SixSigma 11y ago
C vs C++
Pike vs Stroustrup
But I'll be gracious enough to give Linus the final word :
I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
— Linus Torvalds
- collyw 11y agoAs someone who does database driven web apps (the opposite end of the spectrum from Linus), there is so much truth in this statment.
- gotchange 11y agoWhat do you mean by database driven web apps? Could you please elaborate more on this part?
- semi-extrinsic 11y agoThat seemed pretty clear to me: a web app where the primary function is to let the user interact with (e.g. search in) a database. What else could it mean?
- collyw 11y agoDjango type apps.
- kibwen 11y ago> Pike I think you're confusing Rob Pike with Dennis Ritchie. :) Pike has designed many languages, but C was not among them. I say this especially because Dennis Ritchie Day was just last week: http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/10/dennis-ritchie-day.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/10/dennis-ritchie-day.html
- SixSigma 11y agoNo I'm not. Pike worked at developing the C language, especially on Plan 9. Plan 9 C has a few unique features added by Pike when Ritchie was his team leader at the labs and Stroustrup was there developing C++. Pike is not a fan of C++, E.g. "object oriented design the is Roman Numerals of computing"
- gaius 11y agoTorvalds paraphrasing Niklas Wirth.
- cafard 11y agoWell, or Fred Brooks.